Schedule & Supply List

Week of Oct. 4-8

MONDAY, Oct. 4
READING
Manga Comics

http://www.afterschooltreats.com/wfdata/frame1346-1205/pressrel12.asp

Japanese comics are short on word counts, but long on illustration power. Your students will enjoy transforming regular stories or book plots into manga form. They're even converting Shakespeare to manga . . . but that's a little extreme.

Snack: rice cakes, hot green tea

Supplies: plain paper; thin, medium and thick black and gray markers; books and stories



TUESDAY, Oct. 5
WRITING
Neighborhood Poem

http://www.afterschooltreats.com/wfdata/frame1227-1170/pressrel12.asp

Take an "observation walk" around the neighborhood, and write your impressions of what you see, hear, touch, feel and think. Then create a free-verse poem. Mount it with original illustrations, or a collage. Then contact your neighborhood association officials, city officials, or a local restaurant or store, to share these with others.



WEDNESDAY, Oct. 6
MATH
Money Math: It "Coin-ts"

http://www.afterschooltreats.com/wfdata/frame1218-1160/pressrel1.asp


Times change . . . technology changes . . . politics change . . . and money makes the world go 'round. THAT will never change! Make sure your students have practice at making change, an essential and basic math skill.

Snack: long carrot, knife (with adult supervision!), ranch dressing, fruit juice

Supplies: 5 small cardboard boxes; masking tape or duct tape; at least five each of quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies; four $1 bills and one $5 bill, or scrap paper to make play money; scrap cardstock or paper, pencil 

 

THURSDAY, OCT. 7
HISTORY
The History of Money

http://www.afterschooltreats.com/wfdata/frame1218-1160/pressrel3.asp

This is a three-part activity: read an online report about the history of money; select one topic or point to zero in on, and write a paragraph about it in your own words, and then plan and create a visual aid to help communicate the point to an audience. (This may develop as a two-day activity, since the students won't know what supplies they need to make their visual aid until they've read the report)

Snack: cooked rice and soy sauce, cooked yam and brown sugar, deli cheese cube and cracker, apple juice

Supplies: paper, pen or pencil, and visual aid supplies (may have to be a second-day completion, with students and/or staff bringing in needed supplies)



FRIDAY, OCT. 8
ART
Henri Matisse: Colorful Paper Cutouts

http://www.afterschooltreats.com/wfdata/frame1201-1142/pressrel7.asp

Who's more fun than the artist Henri Matisse? Who's more vibrant, more exciting, more captivating? Your students will love imitating his "wild" style with simple, graphic paper art.

Snack: cookie cutterts, bread, bologna, cheese, lettuce

Supplies: brightly-colored paper or cardstock, scissors, gluesticks